In my opinion, it sounds like intel is doing what it did with the Pentium D. It pretty much just put two Cedar Mills on the same die and call it dual-core until C2D came out. AMD, on the other hand, actually put some thought into the making of its X2 line which lead to improved performance compared to a Pentium D system. I'm definitely glad that Intel finally learned that deep pipelines and high GHz is not everything though. The next few years in processor technology will definitely get interesting.

Kentsfeild will choke under its own power. By using the FSB, Intel have pretty much killed it. Under full load on ALL cores, the FSB will be saturated and performance will diminish rapidly.

Ok Im starting to get really tired of this. I have said time and time again that the 1066MHz FSB on Kentsfield is not saturated. Tests have shown that there is absolutely no difference between running the FSB at 1066MHz or 1333MHz. Its not saturated, it will not kill the performance. Ill try and find some of the articles if you dont believe me. Heck, Ill even go buy a QX6700 when it comes out just to prove it.